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Cape Town – Cape Town authorities should have begun implementing water augmentation schemes in 2012 or earlier, the Water Research Commission (WRC) said.If this had been done, there would be no talk of Day Zero, said WRC chief executive Dhesigen Naidoo. Images circulating on social media show a 1990 article in the Cape Times, […]

NOAA Headquarters Though La Nina is starting to wane, the ocean-cooling phenomenon continues to lower global temperatures. February 2018 ended up being Earth’s coolest February in four years. The December-to-February seasonal period also was the coldest it has been since 2014, according to scientists from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. Let’s take a closer […]

Darkening of snow from more dust storms in warmer Colorado Rockies ‘just pushes on gas pedal for snowmelt’. Thursday, March 15, 2018 “It looks apocalyptic,” says Jeff Deems, a research scientist at the University of Colorado. With “a big orange-red sky, it really does look Martian.” He’s describing dust storms – layers of windblown particles that are […]

Record warmth in the Arctic this month could yet prove to be a freak occurrence, but experts warn the warming event is unprecedented Jonathan Watts Global environment editor February 27, 2018 An alarming heatwave in the sunless winter Arctic is causing blizzards in Europe and forcing scientists to reconsider even their most pessimistic forecasts of climate change. […]

by Weather Wiz Kids What is a landslide? A landslide is defined as the movement of a mass of rock, debris, or earth down a slope due to gravity. The materials may move by falling, toppling, sliding, spreading, or flowing. What causes a landslide? Almost every landslide has multiple causes. Slope movement occurs when forces acting […]